作者：Still, Mary C.; Strang, David
作者单位：George Washington University; Cornell University
摘要：We advance theories of the diffusion of innovations by examining the structure of emulation that emerged in one bank's benchmarking program. Prestigious firms and firms linked to the bank through executive migration were disproportionately likely to be recruited as benchmarking partners and, once visited, to be highly influential. Firms tied to the bank by board interlocks and geographic proximity were neither overrepresented nor influential. The bank also paid modest attention to other financ...
作者：Johnson, Victoria
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
作者：Jonsson, Stefan; Greve, Henrich R.; Fujiwara-Greve, Takako
作者单位：Uppsala University; INSEAD Business School; Keio University
摘要：This paper theorizes about why discoveries of corporate deviance that damage the legitimacy of the responsible organization may also have consequences for other organizations. We propose that audiences generalize from deviance by one organization to others that are similar. The result is a withdrawal from transactions even from non-culpable organizations as audiences seek to avoid organizations that they associate with a deviant act. We show that two scandals involving Skandia AB, a Swedish in...
